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Salt Lake City staff brief Historic Landmark Commission on Avenues community plan update; LDS Hospital site flagged as a key issue
Summary
City planning staff told the Historic Landmark Commission the Avenues plan — last updated in 1987 — is being revised to align with citywide plans. Public feedback emphasized preservation, housing affordability, transportation safety and placemaking. The future of the LDS Hospital site emerged as a major outstanding question.
City planning staff briefed the Salt Lake City Historic Landmark Commission on an update to the Avenues community plan, saying the plan area is roughly 3,000 acres and that the update aims to align neighborhood guidance with citywide policies such as Planned Salt Lake and Housing SLC.
Riley, a city planning staff member, said the Avenues plan “will help create a vision for the community for the next 10 years,” and described the project’s public-engagement sequence: opportunities and issues (completed), a “big ideas” stage currently under way, and a final vision stage leading to hearings and City Council consideration.
The presentation summarized an existing-conditions report and initial outreach. The Avenues contains about 8% of Salt Lake City’s population, many homes constructed before 1920, and a housing mix dominated by single-family homes with apartments representing about 39% of housing in parts of the Lower Avenues. Planners reported that 100% of Avenues households are…
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